Q: XML to CSV

Hello, I am a newbie to XSLT. Just try to convert following XML files to csv <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <DEP> <Department> <DEP_NO>1</DEP_NO> <DEP_NAME>Grocery</DEP_NAME> </Department> <Department> <DEP_NO>2</DEP_NO> <DEP_NAME>Frozen</DEP_NAME> </Department> </DEP> convert to 1,Grocery 2,Frozen I also need to convert another similar XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <DIV> <Division> <DIV_NO>1</DIV_NO> <DIV_NAME>Juice</DIV_NAME> </Division> <Division> <DIV_NO>2</DIV_NO> <DIV_NAME>Pasta</DIV_NAME> </Division> </DIV> convert to 1,Juice 2,Pasta I found some handy work on www.javaranch.com and modified as bellow and got it working: <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl utput method="text"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:for-each select="DEP/Department|DIV/Division"> <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:choose> <!-- No comma on the last element --> <xsl:when test="position()=last()"><xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <!-- Comma required. Not the last element --> <xsl therwise><xsl:value-of select="."/>,</xsl therwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> My question is how not to write "DEP/Department|DIV/Division" in the xsl:for-each? this is because I have more similar format files to process. any functions I can use? Or there are even better solution out there? I wish some kind sole can shed some light for me. Thanks very much in advance Chuck

Would it be possible to convert those DIV, DEP, etc. into parameters which you specify when running the XSLT engine? I'm not sure if it's possible to use input parameters for this particular purpose...